H.R. 10370 — Ailani Myers Accelerating Innovation in Medicine to Cure Kids with Cancer Act

This section directs the President to designate an officer, employee, office, council, or commission as the Coordinator of AI Innovation to coordinate Federal efforts using advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, to improve the diagnosis, treatment, prevention of, and development of cures for, pediatric cancer. The Coordinator must align activities across the National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and other listed agencies; facilitate collaboration with non-Federal entities; align data and AI policies; and support related Federal activities.

This section directs the National Cancer Institute Director to carry out the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative to collect, generate, standardize, link, and share data on individuals diagnosed with cancer as a child, adolescent, or young adult, regardless of current age or care location. It requires support for molecular characterization of pediatric cancers, non-invasive technologies and AI tools, data platforms including the CCDI Data Ecosystem, rare cancer studies, the National Childhood Cancer Registry, and related standards, and it requires the Secretary to designate a CCDI Director with expertise in pediatric oncology or biomedical data science to lead the initiative and coordinate with federal and nonfederal partners.

This section directs the National Cancer Institute Director to support artificial intelligence applications that accelerate pediatric cancer research and care through the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative. It requires expanded AI readiness of CCDI data platforms, data consolidation and standards development, research on predictive modeling and biomarkers at designated cancer centers, and use of multimodal data to improve clinical trial design and conduct for pediatric cancer products. The Secretary must disseminate resulting methods, tools, and standards to other NCI programs and federal agencies.

This section directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to integrate artificial intelligence into interoperability activities under title XXX of the Public Health Service Act to improve electronic health record and claims data for research and clinical trials while protecting individually identifiable health information. It requires finalization of interoperability standards within 2 years that account for structured and unstructured data, enable safe privacy-compliant exchanges, and prioritize needs of pediatric patients including pediatric cancer patients; the standards apply throughout the Department and not only to the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative or National Cancer Institute. It also requires consultation with patients, families, providers, researchers, and developers, coordination with the patient community on data sharing, and identification of barriers to pediatric data interoperability.

This section requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to the appropriate congressional committees an interim report within 180 days of enactment describing implementation progress, interim findings, and barriers under this title, followed by annual reports through fiscal year 2031 that detail activities and expenditures (including under sections 201(b) and 202), data sharing and interoperability progress, identified barriers and recommendations, and outcomes on pediatric cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention, or cure.

This section defines terms used throughout the Act, including the appropriate congressional committees of jurisdiction, artificial intelligence by reference to the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI), and the NCI Director as the Director of the National Cancer Institute.

This section requires that activities under the Act comply with applicable Federal and State laws on the privacy of patient information, including regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

This section authorizes such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031 to carry out the Act, excluding section 201. It also authorizes $100 million annually for each of those fiscal years to carry out section 201 (CCDI).